Haileybury Almaty

The Humanities Department is responsible for the teaching and learning of History and Geography at the School
 
HISTORY

The course follows a modified version of the National Curriculum to reflect the School’s international nature in order to provide a sound foundation for IGCSE and A Level History. The course includes both studies of key events responsible for shaping the modern world and depth studies of specific countries.
 
Pupils will be taught with three main aims:-

1. Knowledge and Understanding of History.  This will include concepts of change, continuity, cause and consequence, as well as an awareness of the features of particular historic contexts, including people‚ attitudes and ideas in the past.
2. Interpretations of History.  The aim will be to demonstrate that there are many views of a historic event dependent upon the ways in which evidence is handled and the biases adopted by historians.
3. The Use of Sources.  Pupils will be taught how to handle the raw materials of History, emphasising the relative reliability and usefulness of the wide range of evidence at the historian‚ disposal.

GEOGRAPHY

The course follows a modified version National Curriculum to reflect the School’s international nature in order to create a sound foundation for those wishing to carry on the study of Geography to IGCSE and A Level. The course is designed to appreciate the physical and human geography of Kazakhstan, the UK and other world locations. The general aims of the course are as follows:

1. To promote an awareness of the distribution and character of a variety of physical and human environments and some of the processes that affect them.
2. To develop an understanding of how people interact with their environment and with each other.
3. To develop a range of skills which are related particularly to enquiry, the analysis of data, mapping and the use of statistical diagrams.